Lisa Kotin, (writer/director/actor). Originally trained as a performer Kotin received her BFA with honors in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. After graduating she went on to perform original shows combining physical comedy, monologues and short films, in and around the New York performance circuit, and then across the US and UK. "Hilarious, manic and wildly inventive."

Kotin was nominated for a “Scottish Express New Talent Award” at the “Edinburgh Fringe Festival” when she brought her show “TEMPORARY GIRL”. She then developed the show into her first feature script of the same title, which drew upon Kotin's experiences at 100+ temp jobs. “TEMPORARY GIRL” premiered at the “Austin File Festival” where it was a Best Film finalist.

The film also screened at New York's “CMJ Film Festival”,” Fort Lauderdale Film Festival,” and Chicago “Alternative. Film Festival” where Kotin was a finalist for Best Director and Best Actress. The film premiered in Los Angeles at the Egyptian Theater's American Cinematheque as part of the Alternative Screen Series.

The Hollywood reporter wrote "...”Temporary Girls” is a showcase for the multi-talented Lisa Kotin, who wrote, co-produced and co-directed (with Johnny White) and stars in the low-budget project filmed in Chicago. While many of the elements are familiar, the energy level is high and the cast is as fearless as Kotin, who plays the crisis-plagued lead with equal parts starchy confidence and frayed abandon...Rarely these days do we get the kind of classic screen comedian role for a woman that Kotin attempts here, using the formula that has served funny men from Charlie Chaplin to Adam Sandler so well."

Kotin currently resides in Los Angeles where she is writing her next feature project

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Chicken Soup
 by Lisa Kotin

Melba's daughter, Jane, is given some lessons in preparing chicken soup from Granny’s Girdle. Granny isn't satisfied with Jane's concoction until she adds her own wedding ring to the pot . Despite any growing affection between the grandmother and granddaughter, Melba eventually puts her mother in a home against her wishes and Jane inherits her grandmother's tenement apartment on Orchard Street.

The Fox
by Lisa Kotin

A Russian woman leaves her snoring husband for Manhattan's challah-strewn Lower East Side, young child and scrawny chicken firmly in tow. Years later her shopping crazed daughter treats herself to a 50th birthday fur shopping spree that turns hairy, taking her back to her roots.

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